Quotes About Wisdom

That's a naive comment from someone as intelligent as you are.... You always do that. The intelligence thing. It's as though if you're smart, you will understand yourself.

It's nothing short of astonishing, all that we learn between the time we are born and the time we die. Of course most of the learning takes place not in a classroom or a library, but in the laboratory of our own lives.

It's one of the best parts of growing up and growing older, I think, that feeling that you'll just get through one day, and then the next, that a week from Saturday will take care of itself. I couldn't do that when I was younger. I don't know how much of this knowledge grows out of being female and having lived through layers of serial, often contradictory, lives.

men were both brutes and blockheads.

I am never afraid of what I know

we are only horses, and don't know.

we should see what was there, and know what was what, and be much less frightened than by only seeing bits of things that we can't understand.

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to Heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fulness of the Godhead shines.

The best way to enjoy yourself is to do what is right and hate nobody. The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live; and the earlier you become wise and good, the more of happiness you secure.

To think I could be such a fool as to fall in love! It is quite beneath the dignity of a woman to do such a thing.

I am above eighteen, and quite able to take care of myself, and others too. You do not know half the wisdom and prudence I possess, because I have never been tried.

ALL true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them . . . .

Es tonto desear la belleza. Las personas sensatas nunca la desean para sí ni le dan importancia en los demás. Si la mente está bien cultivada y el corazón bien dispuesto, a nadie le importa el exterior. Eso decían los profesores de nuestra infancia, y eso decimos nosotros a los niños de hoy. Todo muy juicioso y correcto, sin duda, pero ¿la experiencia apoya tales afirmaciones?

I see clearly, now, the folly of throwing myself away on one that is unworthy of all the love I have to give and incapable of responding to the best and deepest feelings of my inmost heart.

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered.  Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them;

Glupo je žudjeti za ljepotom. Razumni ljudi nikada ju ne žele za sebe, niti im je stalo do nje kod drugih ljudi. Samo ako je um dobro prosvije?en, a srce na pravome mjestu, nikome nikada nije važna vanjština. Tako su govorili u?itelji našega djetinjstva; a tako i mi govorimo djeci današnjih vremena. Sve vrlo razumno i umjesno, nema sumnje; ali imaju li takve tvrdnje podršku u stvarnim iskustvima?

As usual, I have reaped the bitter fruits of my own error- and must reap them to the end.

Minden igaz történetnek van valami tanulsága, ámbár némelyikben nehéz meglelni e kincset, s ha megleljük is, gyakran oly csekélynek bizonyul, hogy a száraz, összezsugorodott bél nem kárpótol bennünket a dió feltörésének fáradságos munkájáért.

And if I,' said she, 'am young in years, I am old in sorrow;

affair struck me as so very absurd; but now I determined to be wiser, and begin at once with as much form and ceremony as any member of the family would be likely to require: and, indeed, the children being so much older, there would be less difficulty; though the little